CHAPTER ill, SECTIONS 2 and 3
HOME OFFICE
Cash Controls
Budget Forecasting
Budget Execution
Contracting and Procurement
Receiving and Inspection
Cost Distribution
Records and Reports
Control of Income
TELETYPE SECTION.
Traffic
Management of Capital Assets
Surplus Property
Motor Pool
Administrative Services
Personnel Administration, Payroll, and
Travel
Cash Controls
Control of Income
Cost Distribution
Financial Accounting and Reporting
The functional responsibility for teletype
communications from Home Office to Jobsite
was transferred from Office Services to the Project Controller in November 1957. During the
early stages of Operation HARDTACK, the
services of three operators were sufficient for
handling all teletype traffic originating in the
Home Office; however, a steadily increasing
volume
of
teletype
communications
a fourth operator in November 1957.
required
After a temporary discontinuance early in
JOBSITE
1957, unattended teletype service was again provided for the receipt of messages transmitted
by the ACAN network. By means of this ser-
Procurement
Receiving and Inspection
Warehousing and Inventory Control
Management of Capital Assets
Surplus Property
Service Operations
Personnel Administration, Payroll, and
Travel
vice, messages received during non-working hours
were available for delivery upon the return of
operators to duty. The monthly volumeoftraffic
handled by the Home Office teletype room in-
creased steadily from 2000 messages in April
1957 to a peak of 4085 in January 1958.
SECTION 3
ESTIMATING
Cost estimating and related work were performed by two Project Estimating Groups, one
located at the Home Office and the other at
EPG, The Home Office Group, directly responsible to the Manager, Construction and Facilities, worked under the supervision of the Project
Chief Estimator for AEC activities. The Jobsite
Group functioned as part of the Jobsite Engineering Division under the control of the Resi-
dent Engineer. Basically, the Home Office Group
prepared estimates for work designed in the
Home Office, and the Jobsite Group prepared
estimates for work designed at Jobsite.
SEQUENCE
closer the estimates were to the actual costs.
Because original criteria were usually incomplete
and subject to change, a series of estimates was
prepared starting with original criteria and progressing to final criteria. The various types of
Construction Cost Estimates referred to in the
table below indicate the sequence in which
they were prepared and also the type of criteria upon which the estimates were based.
CRITERIA
TYPE OF
ESTIMATE
1
Letters, one-line diagrams, sketches, etc.
Preliminary
2
Unapproved drawings considered to be
Original
3
Approved, complete drawings
Current
4
approximately complete
Approved, complete drawings, plus indi-
cation of cost trends from actual progress
reports and costs
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The more accurate and the more precise
the criteria on which estimates were based, the
Working
Estimates and
Analyses